Brown - interview in clinical

Question 1

What is the aim of Brown?

Answer 1

To see how self-esteem, support and life events impacted on onset of Depression

Question 2

How big was the sample in Brown?

Answer 2

395

Question 3

What is the sample of Brown?

Answer 3

Women ages 18-50 from London who had a husband with a manual job or were a single mother via a postal questionnaire

Question 4

What type of structure did this study use?

Answer 4

Prospective

Question 5

What happened at the first stage of the study?

Answer 5

They were interviewed about their self-esteem and the social support in their lives (and psychiatric stress)

Question 6

What type of interviews were administered in this study?

Answer 6

Semi-structured

Question 7

How many women were intensely interviewed?

Answer 7

21

Question 8

How long was the interval between the first part and second part of Brown?

Answer 8

1 year

Question 9

Why were some women removed from the study during the second phase?

Answer 9

They had depression in stage 1 so had to be excluded in stage 2

Question 10

What were the results about life events?

Answer 10

32/303 women had depression, 29 of the 32 had experienced some major life event

Question 11

What were the results about self-esteem?

Answer 11

33% of those who developed depression had negative evaluation of the self and 13% did not.

Question 12

What were the results about social support/crisis support?

Answer 12

They mostly found core crisis support (85 of 92) helpful

Question 13

What is a strength of the sample?

Answer 13

It is a large sample (395) making it more generalisable to a wider population

Question 14

What is are weaknesses of the sample?

Answer 14

The sample is ethnocentric as they’re all from London and only included women so is also Gynocentric (and all have shared characteristics as they’re similar)

Question 15

Why is prospective study structure good?

Answer 15

It eliminated retrospective bias from influencing the results

Question 16

Why is Brown reliable? Can you counter argue?

Answer 16

It is largely reliable because it used semi-structured interviews where most of the questions would be the same-but some are not (which could lower reliability)

Question 17

Is Brown high in inter-rater reliability?

Answer 17

Yes- many of the women’s interviews were recorded and then looked at by another interviewer

Question 18

Why is it a positive the eliminated women from stage 2 who were found to have depression in stage 1?

Answer 18

Their depression might have influenced their self-esteem making the findings about how self-esteem causes depression less valid

Question 19

What is an issue with this study using interviews?

Answer 19

Social desirability, the women might lie to appear a certain way

Question 20

Are there any ethical issues in Brown?

Answer 20

The women in the study might be somewhat upset about talking about their social support and serious life events (but it is just an interview so it isn’t a major ethical issue)